The land is holy
where they fought,
And holy where they fell;
For by their blood that land was bought,
The land they loved so well.
Then glory to that valiant band,
The honored saviors of the land!
. .
. .
. .
The God
of battles heard their cry,
And sent them to victory.
They left the plowshare in the
mould,
Their flocks and herds without a fold,
The sickle in the unshorn grain,
The corn, half garnered, on the plain;
And mustered, in their simple dress,
For wrongs to seek a stern redress,
To right their wrongs, come weal, come woe,
To perish, or o'ercome their foe. |
A BRILLIANT RECORD.
Probably no county in the United States - certainly none
in the States that date their origin since the war of the
Revolution - has a more brilliant military record than
Hamilton county. In the Indian period, during the last
war with Great Britain, the skirmish with Mexico, and the
great civil war, the men of Cincinnati, and of Hamilton
county at large, bore full and honorable part. Their
patriotism from the beginning has been clear and undoubted;
their readiness to serve the country in any hour of its
peril has been equally manifest, whenever the occasion for
its exhibition has come. From Fort Washington, near
the old Cincinnati, marched the troops of Harmar, of St.
Clair, and of Wayne, in their several campaigns against the
savages of the north country; and hence, much later, moved
gaily out, likewise on the Hamilton road, and one bright May
morning, the Fourth regiment of infantry in the Federal
army, which formed the main stay of the beleaguered force at
the battle of Tippecanoe. From Hamilton county went
large and gallant contingents in the War of 1812-15 and the
war with Mexico; and her contingent in the war of the
Rebellion was numbered by many thousands - a very large
percentage, indeed, of the entire force (three hundred and
ten thousand six hundred and fifty-four men) recruited in
the State of Ohio during the struggle. It is doubtful
whether any city in the Union furnished more men to the
Federal cause, in proportion to its population, than
Cincinnati.
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THE FIRST
HARMAR'S CAMPAIGN AND
DEFEAT.
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until the main body could get up. He found the towns
abandoned; and when the remainder of the column arrived, on
the morning of the seventeenth, they were destroyed, with a
large quantity of corn, estimated at twenty thousand
bushels, standing in the fields. This was the only
real damage inflicted upon the savages by the campaign, and
alone redeemed the movement from absolute failure.
Colonel Trotter was then sent with
WILKINSON'S EXPEDITION.
ST. CLAIR'S CAMPAIGN AND
DEFEAT.
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WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN AND
VICTORY.
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A MINOR EXPEDITION
A VERY SHORT CAMPAIGN
THE TIPPECANOE CAMPAIGN.
It is probable that many other men of Hamilton county,
besides the gallant commander, General William Henry
Harrison, were out with him in the campaign of 1811,
against the Indians of the Indian country; but their names
are not now ascertainable. The sole note of .the
history of the campaign, connecting Cincinnati and the
county with it, which we find, is in Mr. E. D. Mansfield's
Personal Memories. He was then a little boy, residing
with his father at Ludlow's Station, on the Hamilton road,
upon which he remembered seeing the Fourth regiment of
infantry march from Cincinnati on a pleasant morning in May,
on their way to the ultimate victory of the campaign at
Tippecanoe the following November, where they found the main
body and chief hope of the American army. The renown
won by General Harrison in the campaign also
reflects from it honor upon Hamilton county, although he was
then residing at Vincennes as governor of Indiana territory.
THE WAR OF 1812-15.
Early in the spring of 1812, before this struggle had been
fully enlisted, the President made a requisition upon the
State of Ohio for one thousand two hundred militia.
More than enough to fill the quota were soon raised, many of
them from Hamilton county. They were ordered by
Governor Meigs to rendezvous at Dayton, on the
twenty-ninth day of April. By the fourth of May one
thousand four hundred troops, mostly volunteers, were
encamped at Camp Meigs, three miles above that place, and
one hundred more were added within a week. Generals
Cass and Gano, the latter a Cincinnatian, were in
command, under the governor, who was commander-in-chief.
The force was divided into three regiments, led,
respectively, by Lewis Cass, Duncan McArthur, and
another Cincinnati soldier, James S. Findlay, who,
although a general in the militia, consented to take a
colonel's place. May 25th, the equipment of the troops
being measurably complete, Governor Meigs formally
surrendered the command of the Ohio contingent to General
Hull of the United States army, who was to lead it away
to the disgraceful surrender at Detroit.
Upon the outbreak of the contest, Governor Meigs
had called out the First division of Ohio militia, which
rendezvoused in Hamilton county, at Hutchinson's
tavern (later Jacob Hoffner's, in
Cumminsville), on the road from Cincinnati through Colerain.
Mr. Mansfield says the volunteers presented a
motley appearance, dressed as they were in a great variety
of apparel, some with hunting-shirts, some with butternut
jackets, and others in more fantastic costumes. Many
of the men had rifles or other arms; but most of them
drilled with sticks and cornstalks in place of firelocks.
When the governor's call was made, the response was generous
from this county, as from other parts of the State.
Two companies volunteered at once in Cincinnati. One
was of mounted infantry commanded by Captain John F.
Mansfield, a nephew of Jared Mansfield, the
surveyor-general.
He was in the Hull surrender with his command,
but was presently released. He was extremely mortified
by the terrible disgrace, and also taking a fever while
crossing Lake Erie, he died soon after his return to
Cincinnati - "of fever and a broken heart," says his cousin,
Mr. Mansfield, in his Personal Memories.
Captain Mansfield is thus further eulogized by
his distinguished relative, Hon. E. D. Mansfield, in
his Memories of Dr. Drake:
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THE MEXICAN WAR.
PRIVATES.
Christopher Kastner, Charles Hantzsche, Benedict Diesterweig,
John Gobler, George Schatzman.
The rendezvous at Cincinnati was at Camp "Washington,"
established for the purpose of this war in a convenient
locality near Mill creek, upon ground now covered, in part,
by the city workhouse and the house of refuge. The
headquarters of the camp are still shown, in a long, low
building, now used for residence and saloon keeping, not far
south of the workhouse. The district yet bears the old
name, though not in a corporate capacity, it now and for
many years past being a part of the city.
THE WAR OF THE
REBELLION.
It would require a huge volume to write, in full detail, the
honorable record made by this county during the great civil
war. Special chapters will be given in this work to
"Cincinnati in the War," "The Siege of Cincin-
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nati," and "The Morgan Raid Through Ohio," and due notices
of patriotism and patriotic efforts will be made in the
histories of the townships. These will allow us to be
very brief in this introduction to what is, afterall, the
best exhibit of good deeds during the fearful struggle - a a
roster of the immense contingent furnished by Hamilton
county to the Federal armies.
The number of camps of rendezvous and equipment
established in the county would, of itself, furnish evidence
of the activity of her people in the maintenance of the war.
The following minor encampments may be enumerated:
Camp Harrison, north of Cincinnati; established by order of
Governor Dennison and named from ex-President
Harrison.
Camp John McLean, near
Cincinnati; named from Justice McLean, of the United
States Supreme court. The Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry,
commanded by Colonel N. E. McLean, a son of the judge
was quartered here.
Camp Gurley; named from the Hon. John A. Gurley,
one of the members of Congress from Cincinnati.
Camp Dick Corwine, also near the city; named from
Major Richard M. Corwine.
Camp Colerain, near the place
of that name, ten mile north of Cincinnati.
Mention is also made of a Camp Wheeler, near Union
Ridge, in this county, where "Tod's Independent Scouts" made
their headquarters in July 1863.
In September, 1861, the Thirty-first Ohio infantry
rendezvoused at the orphan asylum in Cincinnati; and many
other public buildings in and about the city were
temporarily used for quarters at various times during the
war.
The great camp, however, one of the most famous
cantonments in the county at the time, was Camp Dennison,
near Madisonville, in the eastern part of the county, on the
Little Miami railroad, seventeen miles from the then limits
of Cincinnati. It was named from Hon. William
Dennison, governor of the State at the outbreak of the
war, at whose request a site for such camp was selected in
the latter part of April, 1861, by General Rosecrans,
then a retired army officer in business in Cincinnati.
One of the prime objects in establishing a large encampment
in this region was to give a feeling of security to the
people of the city, in view of the doubtful position of
Kentucky at this early stage of the war. Captain
George B. McClellan, president of the Ohio & Mississippi
railroad, also a young officer of the regular army, who had
resigned to engage in civil pursuits, had been appointed by
Governor Dennison major-general of the Ohio militia;
and by his invitation Rosecrans accepted the post of
topographical engineer upon his staff, and proceeded to
select the camp. The site chosen was a stretch of
level land, not very broad or long, but sufficient for most
purposes of the camp. The ground was necessarily
leased at the high rates put upon it by the owners; and the
governor was much blamed for what was deemed an extravagant
outlay. It was named from him by General McClellan,
who was put in command of the camp, but soon
.........................................
We now come to
THE IMMENSE ROSTER
of the Hamilton county
contingent in the late war. It was has been compiled
from the rolls in the bureau of the Adjutant-General of the
State, where every courtesy and convenience have been kindly
afforded for the work. Happily, few Rebellion rolls
are missing from this great collection, except in some cases
of three-months regiments or companies; and fortunately,
too, for twenty-nine regiments of infantry, eight regiments
of cavalry, and seven batteries, at the time this
compilation was made, the records had been reduced to such
system and shape that it was possible to present a full
roster of each of these commands. For the others, the
muster-in rolls must in general suffice, as is usual in
histories of this
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kind. The writer has been embarrassed, not only by the
magnitude of the list, but by the difficulty, in many cases,
of identifying officers or men as belonging to Hamilton
county. No means exist in the adjutant general's
office, apart from the rolls, for such identification; and
these are not always reliable. Entire companies, raised in
other parts of the State, were re-enrolled at Cincinnati or
Camp Dennison, and appear accordingly upon the rolls, and
large numbers of men from other parts of the State and
country went to these places for their original enlistment;
while many Hamilton county citizens were enrolled at points
outside of the county or "in the field," particularly for
veteran services, and can not now be recognized, except by
those who personally know the facts, as Hamilton county
volunteers. Not withstanding the faithful use of Mr.
Reid's invaluable book, Ohio in the War, and other
available sources of in formation as to the locale of
companies, regiments, and individual enlistments, it is
probable that some hundreds, at least, are herein accredited
to this county that belong to other counties, and that quite
as many whose names should appear upon this roster, have
been omitted, because the rolls do not furnish the data by
which they can be recognized as of the Hamilton "Grand
Army." But every effort has been made to secure as
full and nearly accurate a roster as possible under the
circumstances.
In general, it has been thought safest to include in
this roll of honor all who were recruited in Cincinnati or
the townships of Hamilton county, so far as shown by the
records; and to omit those enrolled at Camp Dennison, unless
some other evidence has been found that they belong to the
county. Many names, it will be observed, are
duplicated, and some, perhaps, triplicated, by
re-enlistments, transfers, or promotions. In all
cases, if the period of service is not specified in the
history or roll of the regiment, it will be understood that
the muster-in was "for three years, or during the war."
The orthography of the rolls has been followed; but
discrepancies of spelling to be found in them make it
reasonably certain that many whose names appear herein will
experience that peculiar sort of fame of which Byron
speaks - having their names spelt wrongly in print.
HAMILTON MEN IN KENTUCKY
REGIMENTS.
A number of companies recruited in this county, which
could not be received for the three-months' service,
rendezvoused spontaneously at the Methodist camp-meeting
ground, on the Colerain pike, eleven miles from the city
(Camp Colerain). Among these were the Valley guards,,
recruited in and about Clifton, Cumminsville, and Carthage,
of which the following named were officers:
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Flamen Ball, jr.
First Lieutenant W. H. Hickock.
Second Lieutenant Frederick Cook.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant John Joyce.
Sergeant Henry Hayward.
Sergeant William Scanlan.
Sergeant S. J. Lawrence
Corporal John Shaw
Corporal C. Drier.
Corporal Henry Jessan.
Colonel P. J. Sullivan was recruiting a regiment in
Cincinnati, and finding it could not be received at Camp
Harrison, marched a number of his companies, about eight
hundred men in all, to the camp-meeting ground. They
included the Rough and Ready guards, Captain Spellmyer;
the Miami guards. Captain Boyer; the Zouave cadets,
Captain Joseph A. Stacy; the Beck guards. Captain
Beck; the Fulton Continentals, Captain David
Johns; and the Union artillery. Captain Joseph
Whittlesey. The several companies subsequently
went to Camp Clay, where they were joined by a company from
Louisville, for which no provision was made in Kentucky, the
governor of that State having declined to furnish the men
asked from that State. Patriotic Ohio, however,
supplied the deficiency in great part; and President
Lincoln, upon the solicitations of Judge Chase
and other Ohioans, consented to receive as the First and
Second Kentucky regiments the organizations effected at Camp
Clay. They were equipped and prepared for the field at
the expense of this State, but were in time recognized by
the authorities of Kentucky, who issued com missions to
their officers. They were as follows:
FIRST KENTUCKY INFANTRY.
FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel James N. Guthrie.
Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Enyart.
Major Bartholomew Loper.
Quartermaster Captain
Gilbert Clemmens.
SECOND KENTUCKY
INFANTRY.
FIELD AND STAFF
Colonel William E. Woodruff.
Lieutenant Colonel George W. Neff
Major Thomas G. Sedgwick.
Quartermaster Captain Joseph Blundell.
By
far the larger part of these, like the men of the regiments,
were Hamilton county citizens - Cincinnatians. The
commands saw their first service in the brigade of General
Jacob D. Cox, in the army of West Virginia.
They served a longer term than the period of original
enlistment, and made very creditable records in the field.
THE HISTORIES AND
ROSTERS.
For the material of the following introductionary
histories, recourse has been had almost exclusively to that
unrivalled repository of information concerning Ohio in the
war - Mr. Whitelaw Reid's great work
bearing that name.
FIRST OHIO INFANTRY.
(Three months' service.)
COMPANY B.
|
PRIVATES. |
John
Bischansen,
Nicholas Kirchhimer,
Charles Kneip,
John Link, |
Robert Visel,
Martin Ritter,
Henry Speier, |
Nicholas Schmid,
William Schubert,
Able Voelkle. |
(Three years' service.)
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Sergeant Major
Charles H. Winner.
COMPANY C.
PRIVATE
Charles A. Stine
COMPANY D.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
Corporal Alfred Smift.
Teamster Daniel Groves
|
PRIVATES. |
Matthew Asken,
Jacob Effinger,
Abraham Busch,
Samuel S. Dean,
Richard Gregory, |
High
Gray,
William A. Huddard,
George Jamison,
Chester C. Logan,
Cornelius Lowe, |
Franklin Moon,
John Phillips,
William A. Withrop,
Benjamin Young,
Lewis Young. |
SECOND OHIO INFANTRY.
This was enlisted at first for three months, under the call
of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand
men. It was mustered into service at Columbus, Apr.
17, 1861, only three days after Fort Sumter was evacuated.
It was at the first battle of Bull Run, and bore honorable
part in the service around Washington until July, when it
was mustered out at the expiration of its term, and
re-organized at Camp Denison as a three-years' regiment in
August and September. A majority of the field, line,
and staff officers had already seen service with the three
months' men. The regiment moved into eastern Kentucky
in September, 1861, and by its good behavior did much to
ingratiate itself and the Union cause in that region.
Its subsequent service was with General Buell's
army, Generals Rosecrans, Thomas and
Sherman. It was in the battle of Stone River and
Chickamauga, in those of the Atlanta campaign, and in
several minor actions. The nucleus of the regiment,
like that of the Sixth and others raised in Cincinnati, was
formed in one of the peace organizations of the city.
It was commanded during part of its career by Colonel
Leonard A. Harris, ex-mayor of Cincinnati, and a native
of that city. Most of the field, staff and band, two
companies, and some recruits scattered through other
companies, were from Hamilton county.
|
FIELD AND STAFF |
Colonel Anson G. McCook.
Colonel Leonard A. Harris
Lieutenant Colonel Jack Kell.
Lieutenant Colonel Obediah C. Maxwell.
Major William T. Beatty.
Surgeon Daniel E. Wade.
Surgeon Benjamin F. Miller.
Assistant Surgeon Thomas J. Shannon
Assistant Surgeon William A. Carmichael.
Quartermaster Ira H.
Bird.
Adjutant George Vandergriff
Adjutant John W. Thomas.
Chaplain Maxwell P.
Gaddis. |
|
NON-COMMISSIONED
STAFF |
Sergeant-Major Horace3 R. Abbott
Quartermaster Sergeant Albert F. Fisher
Commissary Sergeant Jacob Hogue.
Principal Musician Charles Seibold
Prisoner of War - Joseph C. Ault,
Hospital Steward.
Died. - Marion A. Ross, Jacob Thompson,
Sergeant-Majors; Samuel Price, of the band.
Transferred. - George Cochran, Quartermaster
Sergeant; William Dodge, Principal Musician.
Discharged. - George H. Hollister, Julius F.
Williams, Aaron W. McCune, Sergeant Majors;
Enoch P. Hoover, Hospital Steward; George
Thayer, Ordnance Sergeant. |
|
REGIMENTAL BAND |
Burton C. McCoy, Leader
First class musicians,
John W. Bates,
Charles Bates,
John Clinton,
Cyprian H. Winget;
|
Seconed
class,
Hiram Cook,
Franklin Steven,
David Shafter,
Ransford R. Whitehead,
Thomas Witmore; |
Third
Class,
john Busby,
George Brant,
John H. Brown,
Jason M. Case,
George W. Owens,
Rosoloo Smith,
Benjamin F. Tufts. |
COMPANY D.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain William A. Smith.
Captain James Warnock.
First Lieutenant George W. Landrum.
Second Lieutenant, John F. Davis.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Anthony W. Henry.
Sergeant Henry E. Ross.
Sergeant Ezekiel A. Howard.
Sergeant James Purden.
Sergeant George W. Briggs.
Corporal John H. Quigley
Corporal Isaac W. Craig.
Corporal Albert Jenkins
Corporal John C. Wones.
Corporal George Rust
Wagoner James Cowan.
|
PRIVATES. |
William Allen,
George Ansfaugh,
Joseph Binkley,
Joseph N. Cutler,
Thomas Clark,
Francis M. Cox,
John H. Dressing,
Henry Gilson,
Michael Gallivan, John B. Hunston,
Theodore Hughes,
John Huddleston,
Alfred Jones,
Alexander Johnson,
Michael Lynch, |
John
Ludrick,
Lewis Mangum,
George Mollitor,
William Menke,
George W. Mitchell,
Joseph McAfee,
Thoms O'Connor,
Marcus O'Connor,
Philip Reilly,
David W. Slusser,
William Simpson,
Michael Tovey,
Amos Westfall,
William A. Williams,
|
James
Welsh,
Richard Benson,
Walter B. Bell,
John Clifford,
Samuel Graham,
John Kennedy,
David S. Long,
Michael McIneray,
John McCune,
Bernard O'Meally,
William Porter,
Charles A. Proctor,
Hugh Redmon,
Julius Shelley. |
Prisoners of War - Albert
E.Thatcher, James Peese, John Darragh,
Walter S. McHugh, James McNally, William Paton,
Peter Reenan, Jonathan Simpson
Killed in Battle -
Corporal William H. Jones. Privates -
Michael Bausch, Henry Demeling, James Doyle, Harry
Harle, James Henry, John Meade, Thomas Tracey.
Missing - Corporal William Cunningham
Died - Sergeant Thomas J. Moore,
Corporal John C. Elliott, Privates -
Daniel Bannon, Charles H. Beal, Frederick Ropp,
Thomas Stack, John E. Weaver.
Discharged - First Sergeants George N. Gates
and John F. Davis, Privates Michael
Costegan, Murty Gallevan, Augustus Wood, William
Harvey, Marion Julian, James Matthews, William
McCarter, Archibald McAfee, Michael Newman, William
Pitman, George W. Ross, Henry Straddling, William J.
Weist, Hannibal Wilson.
Transferred. - Sergeant Julius F. Williams,
Musician William Dodge, Privates
Marcus L. Brown, Lawrence Coen,
Jaocb A. Hogue, George Moore, Abraham Smith. |
COMPANY F.
PRIVATES.
Frank Nolte
harles McGurn, William M. Tatman (both discharged)
COMPANY H.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain John Henell.
Captain Jacob Totrell.
First Lieutenant Jerome A.
Fisher
Second Lieutenant Henry Purlier.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
Sergeant Alfred Lafore.
Sergeant Augustus Crawford.
Corporal James McLaughlin.
Corporal Charles E.
Brown.
Corporal Isaac Wilson,
Corporal James C. Norton.
Corporal John Keifer.
|
PRIVATES. |
Charles H. Abbott,
James Boggs,
James Duncan,
Michael Doherty,
George Epke,
William Gold, |
John
R. Hallam,
Jeremiah Hogan,
Robert L. Lind,
Theodore Spinner,
John Battles, |
George Cook,
William T. Gray,
Halford H. Heick,
John Norvasky,
James Rice |
|
Prisoners of
War. - Sergeants George M. Hall and
Benjamin Johnson; Corporal Philip Lipps;
Privates Robert Baggott,
Charles W. Chard, John Dumas, William Egan,, John
Hillstrip, Bernard Hester, Henry Lanfersiek, John
Miner. |
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Died. - Privates George W. Hackwalder and
James L. Shell.
Discharged. - Sergeant Henry Purlier;
Privates William Cramer, Lawrence Fagan, John
Gold, Ezra Mock, Patrick McCarty, Joseph Nealy,
Thomas H. Orr, Frederick Quamby, George Thayer,
William H. Walker.
Transferred. - First
Sergeant Aaron W. McCune; Sergeant James
A. Suter; Privates Timothy Brannon, James
Crouch, Joshua Dunkley, Charles F. English, James
Kirby, John Mageer, Richard N. Ross, Joseph
Wellington, Jesse C. Young.
On muster-in but not on muster-out roll. - Musician
Kendall Edson. |
COMPANY I.
Private John Kramer, transferred.
THIRD OHIO INFANTRY.
This regiment was raised for the three months' service,
and was re-enlisted for three years. It was first
mustered into service Apr. 27, 1861. Its earliest duty
was in the preparation of Camp Dennison, a few miles from
Cincinnati, and it did not take the field until after its
re-organization in Colonel Streight's expedition into
northern Georgia, in early April, 1863, when almost the
entire command was captured. One company of the three
years' regiment was from Cincinnati, and the other companies
from the city were in the three months' service.
(For three months).
FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel Lewis Wilson.
Fife Major Jerome F.
Dandelet.
COMPANY B.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain George M Finch.
First Lieutenant Edwin D.
Saunders.
Second Lieutenant Frederick
S. Wallace.
Lieutenant Stephen M.
Athearn.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Charles Swift
Sergeant Roswell G. Feltus.
Sergeant William Buchman.
Sergeant William Suckles.
Corporal William Young.
Corporal James M. Walker
Corporal Joseph L. Flenner.
Corporal Milton H. Lydick.
Musician E. Vanpelt.
Musician Geore T. Suter.
|
PRIVATES |
W. H.
H. Taylor, jr.,
Charles L. Feltus,
Henry Hofkamp,
William Kiefer,
Edwin C. Saunders,
J. Martin,
M. B. Chamberlain,
C. D. Griggs,
A. B. Benton,
Charless Hulvershorn,
James Vanpelt,
J. J. Beahr,
Frank A. Armstrong,
E. S. Cooke,
George W. Johnson,
J. Frank Miller,
William W. Miller,
William D. Mudge,
Thomas L. Wentworth,
George L. Pendery,
John Davis,
George F. Walters,
J. B. Holman,
John C. Martin, |
Enoch
C. Jacobs,
D. S. Pearce,
J. L. Hann,
Charles B. Schondt,
A. J. Noble,
William Scott,
Charles M. Stout,
R. C. Steen,
O. Taxis,
Edmond H. Davis,
A. King,
John L. McElhaney,
Joseph A. Clark,
W. H. Speed,
S. A. Harrison,
William Weye,
D. W. Snyder, Joseph Foss,
Robet Cameron,
F. McGrew,
Thomas Colgan,
A. Alexander,
Charles Guiss,
Charles L. Shannon,
A. Stevens, |
Samuel Warwick,
T. P. Cavanaugh,
W. H. McDevitt,
P. Bohl,
Urath B. Jones,
N. B. Holman,
John Holtzwiger,
John M. Hubbell,
William A. Koon,
William Torrey,
Joseph Ryan,
John Nealy,
Henry L. Williams,
George C. Kithchen,
Andrew Reuss,
Henry De Bus,
William Sterritt,
William Stewart,
J. N. Kuntz,
W. K. Perrine,
Lewis Roderige,
James R. Smith,
Frank Thierman. |
COMPANY C.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain J. E. Baldwin.
First Lieutenant J. E.
Riggs.
Second Lieutenant G. H. Aiken.
Lieutenant George Vandergriff.
Lieutenant C. A. Newman.
Lieutenant Eugene C. Wilson
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant W. E. Oakley.
Sergeant C. S. Burns
Sergeant Charles Mendenhall.
Sergeant W. G. Ross
Corporal B. T. Wright.
Corporal D. W. Pierson
Corporal P. R. Mitchell.
Corporal L. V. Horton
Bugler J. F. Dandelet.
|
PRIVATES. |
E. R.
Davidson,
J. Calhoun Wright,
M. Strohmeier,
C. W. Miner,
David S. French,
Jacob S. Burnett,
A. E. Doisey,
C. F. McKenzie,
W. H. Childs,
George H. Hull,
W. P. Egan,
Charles Faulman,
Thomas Jones,
O. T. Gunn,
E. J. Lukens,
George McCammon,
J. T. Piggott, jr.,
Ira Athearn,
E. E. C. Swift,
W. W. Wilmot,
Charles B. Ellis, |
Thomas T. Wheeler,
B. H. Parsons,
S. H. Bascom,
Thomas Coen,
J. W. Johnston,
George H. Palmer,
J. W. Craven,
P. Bucher,
George W. Ward,
T. Brickham,
J. Small,
C. H. Phelps,
Isaac West,
B. H. Snyder,
R. W. McComas,
Thomas Webb,
J. H. Simpson,
Nathan Guilford,
Alfred Koste,
L. H. Hill,
E. H. Hussey, |
M. B.
Bailely,
A. H. Russell,
William Mitchell,
G. Rudolph,
H. P. Radcliff,
T. Deming,
E. E. Isabel,
B. B. Fearing,
T. Wilton,
R. R. Martin,
H. Tilden,
Benjamin Harbison,
John Snosey, jr.,
F. S. Taylor, jr.,
Henry Schultz,
W. C. Williams,
Ogden Mender,
John A. Wright,
J. A. Arthur,
Frank Sterns. |
COMPANY I.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Leonard A. Harris
First Lieutenant William J. Smith,
Second Lieutenant
John Herrel
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Axexander Campbell
Sergeant Francis N. Gibson.
Sergeant John Anthony
Sergeant Charles C. Martin
Corporal Timothy Crannon.
Corporal Jerome A. Fisher
Corporal F. Rickey.
Corporal John Davis.
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PRIVATES. |
Herman Act,
Patrick Burk,
John Barrett,
Victor Burnham,
John H. Burnham,
Joshua Bailey,
Henry Bleaker,
Edward Brady,
Marshall Bruce,
Frederick Brodey,
Edward Blackburn,
Edward Clyde,
John Cosgrove,
Frederick Carson,
William J. Campbell,
George Curtis,
John Davis,
James Disberry,
Irwin C. Darling,
John Dixon,
William Dorley,
Simon P. Elliott,
Christopher Ellis,
John Ernest,
John Ford,
Martin Foltz,
John Feber,
Benjamin Gylle, |
Jasper Holman,
Adam Hass,
Henry Hosmanger,
Jere Hogan,
Thomas Hartless,
James Hoban,
Herman Kopper,
William Johnson,
Frederick Johnson,
John Johnson,
Norris Jallison,
Henry Kokenbrink,
Thomas Kennedy,
Timothy Lawton,
Martin Leopold,
Valentine Lenhart,
James Lozier,
Henry McCren,
George N. McCabe,
John McGovern,
George Miller,
John Mitchell,
Patrick Morrisey,
James Manshot,
Henry M. Nichols,
Sames N. Nutt,
Alfred G. Norissey,
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Charles Newman,
Paul Newmiller,
James O'Conner
John O'Connell,
John Penny,
Thomas Powers,
Thomas Payne,
Thomas Reynold,
Francis Rhody,
Anthony Schwagart,
William Stager,
Henry Sanders,
Thomas Simons,
William Schafer,
John Sailman,
william Swift,
John Stewart,
David Thayer,
Henry Vanfield,
Christopher Whaking,
William Walfeck,
Charles Young,
Herman Bartlett,
Charles Cary,
Paul M. Farnsworth,
Charles Kent,
Peter N. Smidth. |
(For three years.)
COMPANY G.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Philip
Fithian.
Captain Edward M. Driscoll.
First Lieutenant John
Richey.
First Lieutenant William A.
Curry.
Second Lieutenant Charles
Trownsell.
NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS.
First Sergeant
Henry D. Bauder.
Sergeant Thomas W. Kruse.
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Sergeant Gilbert B. McWhick.
Corporal Philip Stegner.
Corporal Jesse Bronson.
Corporal Thomas B. Teetor.
Wagoner
William Stoul
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PRIVATES. |
Rudolph Baehr,
August Brewer,
James Curry,
William Dooley,
Callahill Dooley,
Edward English,
Benjamin Holmes,
Harry Hamilton,
George W. Howell,
Lewis Klingler,
William Lawler,
Frank Metz,
Albert Musser,
Edwin McMillen,
John McClamthan,
Frank O'Connor,
Robert Potts,
Henry Phillips, |
Albert Stimson,
John Stanferma,
Charles Schwab,
August Schwager,
Andrw Schneller,
Fred Vanlieu,
Herman D. Willman,
Joseph Weber,
Manasses Brown,
George Bellville,
Caspar Davis,
Calvin Bills,
Fred Eichenlaub,
Parker Ernst,
David Finch,
James Frank,
Frank Gallagher, |
Richard Howe,
Harrison Kipp,
James King,
William Linch,
John D. Moore,
William McMillen,
Daniel O'Keef,
Charles Philips,
John Pohlman,
Jacob Smith,
Daniel Spencer,
Michael Straber,
Frank Stanferman,
Thomas Tydings,
John Wellman,
Conrad Webber,
John T. Welsh. |
Killed in Battle. - Sergeant William V. McCoabrie,
Corporal Joseph Bahlman.
Privates. Louis Whitmore, Henry Barney, Henry
Lochemey, John B. Naylor.
Died. - Sergeant
Charles Cannon. Private Charles Hart.
Discharged. - First Sergeants William A. Curry,
David J. Krule privates John Atkins, Michael
black, John Baird, Benjamin Bonner, Henry C. Bliner,
Benjamin Crawford, William Cartman, William Chase,
John F. Droste, George A. Henry, John Knapp, James
Lawrence, Arthur Lyle, George Richey, James Smith,
Cincinnatus Stinson, James Vaulien, Edward Wessel.
Transferred. - Sergeant
Sebastian E. Francis, Musician Richard
DeButts; privates
August Birnbriger, John Coste, Alexander Driscoll,
Frank Dick, Charles Graham, Joan Hartley, William N.
Keys, John Lanch, John Lawrence, Emil Miller,
William Mills, William H. McGraw, Edward Massey,
James O'Conner, Charles T. Palmer, Nathan Reed,
George F. Say, Yeustace Smith, Martin Smith, Joseph
Schweder, Daniel Shaw, Sylvanus Stewart, Joseph
Shries, Thomas Thackeray, Copple Tippanhauer, James
Vermilyea.
On muster-in, but not on muster-out roll. - Privates
James Cottle, Charles French, Richard Linch, James
Linton, Joseph D. Murry, William Vandine.
On muster-in roll Mar.
31, 1864, but not on muster-out roll. - Private
Cornelius Driscoll. |
FOURTH OHIO INFANTRY.
Mustered into service April
4, and May 5, 1861.
Private George Wilson.
FIFTH OHIO INFANTRY.
This was also originally one of the three-months'
organizations and was made up of young men from Cincinnati
and the vicinity. It was into Camp Harrison, near that
city, Apr. 20, 1861; was mustered into the Federal service
May 3d; was transferred to Camp Dennison May 23d;
re-enlisted in a bodoy for three eyars the next month, and
was re-mustered June 20th, and started for the field in
western Virginia, July 10th. Its first service here
was under Brigadier General Charles W. Hill under
whom a very toilsome march was taken over the spurs of the
Alleghanies, in a vain effort to intercept the retreating
troops of the rebel General Garnet. It then
engaged in guard duty and drill of Parkersburgh until August
5th, when it moved to Buckhannon, and lay there until
November 3d. Near this point companies A, B, and C had
a sharp fight with a party of rebels, losing one man and
killing several of the enemy. Thence the regiment
marched to New Creek on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and
presently to Romney, where it had hard service, entire
companies being sent out daily on scouts, and supplying very
large details for picket duty, some of whom had their posts
six or seven miles from camp. Colonel Dunning,
of the Fifth, here took command of the forces in and about
Romney, in place of General Kelly, who was
disabled by a wound. Hearing of a rebel force of
fifteen hundred at Blue's Gap, sixteen miles out, he moved a
detachment against it during a driving snow storm on the
night of Jan. 6, 1862, surprised the enemy, killing twenty
of them, capturing a number, with two cannon, and destroying
the mill and other property of the rebel Colonel
Blue, at that point. This was the beginning of the
Fifth Ohio's reputation for bravery and thorough-going
dealing with the rebels. The confederate papers
soundly anathematized the regiment led "by a butcher," and
advised their commanders to show its members no quarter.
Within fifteen hours from the time of starting the regiment
was back at Romney, having in that short space of time
marched thirty four miles and fought a spirited and
successful action.
General Lander took command of the forces
shortly after, and the regiment was moved in rapid
succession to a number of places, marching and
countermarching for more than a month, and suffering much
from the inclement season. February 13th, with the
Eighth Ohio and a cavalry force, it made a reconnoisance in
force on Bloomney Furnace, during which the cavalry engaged
the enemy and won a victory. March 18th, under
General Shields, it participated in another
reconnoisance to Strasburgh, the enemy being pushed several
miles beyond Mt. Jackson, but without bringing on an action.
On the twenty-second, from Winchester the regiment was moved
out hastily and the next- day reached Kerns town and took a
position to support a battery, where it was attacked, with
other forces in the battle, about nine A. M. It held
its place until afternoon, when five companies were detached
and moved alone against an over whelming force, whose fire
they sustained alone in an open field for some time,
returning it with interest, until reinforcements came, when
the united commands advanced and soon routed the enemy.
Five color-bearers of the regiment were successively shot
down in this short but sharp fight, among them Captain
George B. Whitcom, of Cincinnati. The Fifth is
believed to have saved the day, at least on this part of the
field. Not long after the rout here the enemy began
his retreat, getting off without further disaster in the
darkness of the night. The Fifth lost forty-seven
killed and wounded in the battle of Winchester. The
regimental colors received forty-eight bullet holes in this
.action, and the State flag ten. A movement was soon
after begun beyond Strasburgh, through Woodstock, and to the
Shenandoah, where a destroyed bridge and Ashby's
cavalry on the other side checked their advance. A
dash was made by the Fifth and some cavalry into Mt.
Jackson, but the enemy fled before their arrival. The
regiment then encamped at Newmarket, Colonel
Dunning commanding the brigade. In a fortnight it
advanced to Harrisonburgh, where. May 7th, a beautiful
stand of colors was presented by a deputation from the city
council of Cincinnati, as a token of appreciation at home of
the regiment's bravery and efficiency in the late battle.
May 12th another march was begun, which continued to
Falmouth, one hundred and fifty miles distant. May
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